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Celebrate National Adoption Day November 23

Social Work Blog

November 23rd marks National Adoption Day. In 1976, Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts decided to celebrate adoption for seven days in his state. Eight years later, President Ronald Regan expanding the observance to becoming National Adoption Week. On November 23, the month’s event culminates with National Adoption Day.

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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Practical Pros and Cons : AI can boost the productivity of administrative tasks and richer educational content. Yet, as our lives become increasingly mediated by technology and adopted by those around us, bringing our humanistic lenses to these spaces becomes even more important.

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Five Steps to Planning your Social Work Program’s Self-Study: CSWE Accreditation

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Editor’s note: Melissa Freedman, MSW, is a social work educator and consultant specializing in leadership, supervision, administration, and quality management and assurance. Which standards will the program director(s) write, and which standards will be written by administrative leadership? More on this later.

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Kinship Care Gets a Boost

Beyond Advocacy

This gathering, which drew child welfare administrators and practitioners from across the nation, was a crucial platform for discussing the opportunities and challenges presented by the new, flexible licensing standards issued by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in September 2023.

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Putting it on (digital) record

Social Care

A priority focus for us is to support the adoption of digital social care record solutions (DSCR) within adult social care. Over the last year, we’ve made significant progress, working with the sector, to help providers to adopt DSCRs, in line with government commitments, but we know there are many providers who still need to make that leap.

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The Adult Social Care Technology Fund: bid update

Social Care

The programme aims to support the adoption of digital technologies in the adult social care sector. Alongside this, funding support continues to be available through the digitising social care programme for the adoption of digital social care record solutions (DSCR). [Image created by freepik.com ] What is the fund designed to achieve?

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A reminder: The horror stories go in ALL directions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

She was placed with foster parents who adopted her. Prosecutors say Aarabella’s adoptive grandmother, adoptive grandfather and adoptive mother worked together to torture and physically abuse Aarabella and her two surviving sisters, ages 7 and 6. The boy wasn’t lying. The foster parent was sentenced to 94 years in jail. ●